, the date. itwastaxday,it was four or five days before the anniversary of waco. it was patriots day in boston and this was a celebration that was honoring the newtown victims. there's a lot of american, if you will, symbolism around all the elements of the bombing that all the investigators are looking at right now. they start with the forensics, they start with the components and they hope it will lead them to the killer or killers. >>dale russell, our old friend that atlanta, georgia. thanks,dale. >> thanks, sean. >> let's get back to boston where our very own bill hemmer is standing by. he has the latest on the ground, including the images we put up earlier from whdh. bill, what can you tell us on is that? >> sean, good evening. these are intriguing images. what we believe they show, it appears like some sort of paper bag with the lining of plastic on the inside. let me set the scene for you. this is along boylston street along the finish line. this would have been possibly the second explosion, sean. i'll call it a paper bag for the moment here because that's what it looks like

the word terror monday, because the fact that itwastaxdaysuggest that a homegrown attack. arizona republican senator john mccain feels the president is generally too reluctant to use the word terrorism. >> i always thought it was just utter foolishness not to use the word terrorist when we are talking about attacks that killed innocent civilians. >> by not immediately calling it terror, mr. obama recalled the two week long dispute after the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi whether it grew out protest of anti-islam film or planned as terrorist attack from the start. and his reference to terrorism less than a day after the boston attack may suggest a lesson learned like benghazi some of the president's aid referred to the boston attack as terrorism before he did. a senior administration official privately called it an act of terror shortly --er mr. obama smoke on spoke on monday. chuck hagel had no doubts. >> any event with multiple explosive devices as this appears to be is clearly an act of terror and will be approached as an act of terror. >> meanwhile, house speak

openly said that we should havehightaxesandwe should have a register of guns ryan to believe that on the record congressman and senators democrats who said that's what they wanted. that's exactly what the nra did say. but i think the president, they missed the boat on this. and they let down the families of newtown. and the way they did it was they went for a piece of legislation that would not have affected a school shooting. this school shooting, if this bill would have been in effect would not have in h. any impact on that school shooting. that's where the president lost. when dianne feinstein came out and said i have got a bill that's been in my desk drawer for years as she put it, that's why they lost because they didn't write a bill that was anything but propaganda for antigun. if they would have written a bill that would have helped keep kids safe at schools, the president probably could have had a bipartisan victory. >> megyn: really? >> they were so obsessed with being antigun. >> megyn: really, alan? i'm not taking a position on this one way or the other. but the ad